unites all RSDP members located abroad in a society whose aim is propaganda and agitation abroad, as well as all possible support for the Russian movement. The League has all the rights of a committee with the sole exception that in the sphere of propaganda and agitation it acts under the direct guidance of the editorial board of the Central Organ, while all support for the Russian movement it renders only through the intermediation of persons or groups specially appointed by the Central Committee.

unites all RSDP members located abroad in a society whose aim is propaganda and agitation abroad, as well as support for the Russian movement. The League has all the rights of a committee with the sole exception that support for the Russian movement it renders only*, through the intermediation of persons or groups specially appointed by the Central Committee.

May - June 1903

# PLAN OF AN ARTICLE "THE FALL OF PORT ARTHUR"**

Capitulation (Fall) of Port Arthur

NB: C r i m i n a l

i g n o r a n c e***

("T i m e s")

Colonial adventure

in Manchuria.

* In the margin beside these words V. I. Lenin wrote: "all relations with Russia and Russian committees it conducts only through". In the course of editing the draft, V. I. Lenin crossed out these words. Ed.

** For the article "The Fall of Port Arthur" see Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 9, pp. 151-159. Ed.

*** - Criminal ignorance. Ed.

Military significance. The main objective of the Japanese.

Destruction of the fleet.

Causes of military collapse. The Tsar's plan: 200,000 for Kuropatkin.

Provisions?

Artillery?
(300 million rubles)
48,000 prisoners.

Victory in essentials.

Kuropatkin's dangers increased tenfold.

Impossibility of recapturing Port Arthur.

Lack of preparation.

Bureaucratism.

Thievery etc.

Low level of officers and soldiers.

Superficial aspect. Fleet crew.
cf. "Independance Belge"

"Wars are waged by peoples."
"Times": Criminal ignorance of strategy*.

World-political significance.

Childish consolations: Kuropatkin felt easier!!

"Frankfurter Zeitung"
cf. "Vossische Zeitung"
extracts 757.

Center of gravity — the Pacific Ocean.

Asia defeated Europe.

Expansion of the world market etc.

The capitulation of Port Arthur is the first step toward the capitulation of tsarism [irreparable blow to the autocracy].

Wars and their revolutionary significance: weakness of revolutionary classes.

War and its sentimental condemnation. Class point of view. "Speculation."

War and class struggle.

Calamities of war.

* - Criminal ignorance in strategy. Ed.

Written in the second half of

First published in 1927

in Lenin Miscellany VI

Printed from the manuscript